Adventurer

I mean, I guess that's me. The upcoming announced releases include: a reprint of arguably the worst received 5e adventure [Tyranny of Dragons]; a joke boxed set for a comedy starter set that's more of a novelty product [Rick & Morty]; an adventure dealing with contracts with devils and invasions - which I'll admit I can see the appeal of - but to me it's just a little on the bleak and edgy side [Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus]; and a campaign sourcebook that is only going to be useful to people who don't already have campaigns they're running - more likely in other campaign worlds [Eberron].

I think that's it for the rest of the year. Of the ones that I listed, only the Avernus has any appeal to me, and I don't think I'd want to run it.

And before that we had a couple other joke releases, starter sets, and an adventure compilation reprint. It's been a very "off" year for D&D for me. But that's all I can say: "for me." If you love it, great!

Legend

I mean, I guess that's me. The upcoming announced releases include: a reprint of arguably the worst received 5e adventure [Tyranny of Dragons]; a joke boxed set for a comedy starter set that's more of a novelty product [Rick & Morty]; an adventure dealing with contracts with devils and invasions - which I'll admit I can see the appeal of - but to me it's just a little on the bleak and edgy side [Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus]; and a campaign sourcebook that is only going to be useful to people who don't already have campaigns they're running - more likely in other campaign worlds [Eberron].

I think that's it for the rest of the year. Of the ones that I listed, only the Avernus has any appeal to me, and I don't think I'd want to run it.

And before that we had a couple other joke releases, starter sets, and an adventure compilation reprint. It's been a very "off" year for D&D for me. But that's all I can say: "for me." If you love it, great!

Explorer

I mean, I guess that's me. The upcoming announced releases include: a reprint of arguably the worst received 5e adventure [Tyranny of Dragons]; a joke boxed set for a comedy starter set that's more of a novelty product [Rick & Morty]; an adventure dealing with contracts with devils and invasions - which I'll admit I can see the appeal of - but to me it's just a little on the bleak and edgy side [Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus]; and a campaign sourcebook that is only going to be useful to people who don't already have campaigns they're running - more likely in other campaign worlds [Eberron].

I think that's it for the rest of the year. Of the ones that I listed, only the Avernus has any appeal to me, and I don't think I'd want to run it.

And before that we had a couple other joke releases, starter sets, and an adventure compilation reprint. It's been a very "off" year for D&D for me. But that's all I can say: "for me." If you love it, great!

They have said they are going to uncrapify the Tiamat adventure. Which may mean a change in view and in review towards it. Kobold Press have since hopefully learned from working on Ghosts of Saltmarsh.
I do not consider the joke sets to be part of the main line up.
You should give Descent into Avernus a chance. At least listen to the reviews as they come out.

And Eberron is looking to have quite a substantial offering. The beauty of a lot of the 5e releases has been setting agnostic material or easy portability.

The Essentials Kit is looking like a winner and more importantly is a product that Wizards have put together from listening to the wants of the public. We need more products like this.

And, yes, the Artificer is a long over-due and welcome addition to 5e. (Though I don't see the need to prioritize it ahead of Psion and Warlord - it /is/ just another archanist in a game that already has 4 all-arcane-all-the-time classes - I'll still take it, thankyouverymuch.)

Legend

And, yes, the Artificer is a long over-due and welcome addition to 5e. (Though I don't see the need to prioritize it ahead of Psion and Warlord - it /is/ just another archanist in a game that already has 4 all-arcane-all-the-time classes - I'll still take it, thankyouverymuch.)

Adventurer

I'm just not big on campaign setting books. Honestly there is a ton of story and information, and I have a difficult time piecing it together and bringing it to life. And most of the time there is someone in the group ready to correct me because they've been reading the novels for decades. But to me it's just a bunch of unpronounceable proper nouns - the cities, factions, rulers, and other NPCs all meld together in a meaningless stew of vowels and consonants. I'd likely feel the same way about a Dark Sun, Planescape, Birthright, or Kara-Tur book. I'm just not going to get excited about it.
Now an Eberron adventure path that has all the information about the setting that I need to tell that particular story? A pulp adventure featuring a magical train robbery, going through dinosaur lands, recovering artifacts from a lost war while being pursued by an army of warforged? I would LOVE that. (I don't even know if that's what Eberron is, but you get the idea.)
Or to use a real example. "Curse of Strahd" = yes. "Big ol Ravenloft Campaign Guide" = no.
"Descent into Avernus" is a soft "maybe." If I hear good things about it, I'll probably thumb through it. But it's not a Day One, excited-to-get-it purchase. Hence why I say "meh." Not that these are bad releases (for me). Just not exciting ones.